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Diving Chess Competition, celebrating in Damascus, and more from the world

REUTERS/Gaby Oraa 
REUTERS/Gaby Oraa 

A man extends his arms in front of a screen showing a picture of the sun in the La Carlota convention center during the inauguration of a space-themed children's exhibition on the solar system, in Caracas, Venezuela December 5, 2025

REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

A drone view shows traffic in the curves of the Julierpass road, in Surses, near Saint-Moritz, Switzerland, December 8, 2025.

JOHN WESSELS / AFP
JOHN WESSELS / AFP

A youth carries a bag of flatbread as he walks along a street in the old city of Jerusalem on December 5, 2025.

REUTERS/Manami Yamada
REUTERS/Manami Yamada

Unitree G1 humanoid robot spars with a human at the TechShare booth in the International Robot Exhibition 2025 at Tokyo Big Sight in Tokyo, Japan December 3, 2025.

REUTERS/Esa Alexander
REUTERS/Esa Alexander

Chess - Grand Masters compete in Diving Chess Competition - Silo Hotel, Cape Town, South Africa - December 4, 2025 Uzbekistan's Javokhir Sindarov in action against Hans Niemann of the U.S.

AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan
AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan

Newly graduated soldiers of the Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry (JKLI) Regiment attend a passing out parade at a training center on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025.

AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino
AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino

An aerial view of the Colosseum, in Rome, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025.

 LOUAI BESHARA / AFP
LOUAI BESHARA / AFP

People holding Syrian flags watch paragliders as they celebrate a year since the ousting of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad in the Syrian capital Damascus on December 8, 2025.

EYAD BABA / AFP
EYAD BABA / AFP

A youth sits on the rubble of a destroyed building as the Cold Moon, the last supermoon of the year, rises over the Nuseirat camp for displaced Palestinians in the central Gaza Strip on December 4, 2025.

LUDOVIC MARIN/Pool via REUTERS
LUDOVIC MARIN/Pool via REUTERS

A giant panda plays in a tree during a visit by Brigitte Macron, wife of French President Emmanuel Macron, at the Chengdu research base for giant panda breeding, on the day French President Emmanuel Macron visits in China December 5

The processors are core to Saudi Arabia's AI strategy, as are the giant data centres being built. Among the Saudi aims is to develop an Arabic large language model. Phil Wheeler
Science & Technology

Buying a brain: US approves Saudi purchase of advanced chips

After Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s visit to Washington last month, negotiations between the US and Saudi Arabia over the supply of…

Marco Mossad 10 December , 2025
Haiku poet Banya Natsuishi Hiroyuki Izutsu
Culture & Social Affairs

Banya Natsuishi: a haiku poet detached from all things

Banya Natsuishi is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished poets of contemporary Japan—a leading figure in the practice and global…

Osama Esber 10 December , 2025
Opinion

Despite the whispers, Maher al-Assad is not ‘coming back’ to Syria

On 5 December, Reuters published a special investigation report showing how the billionaire cousin of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is…

Alia Mansour 10 December , 2025
China's far-shoring strategy in Latin America: does this mean the end of Washington dictating Latin America's destiny? Shutterstock
Politics

China is redefining global trade dynamics in America’s backyard

When China’s President Xi Jinping inaugurated Peru’s Chancay megaport in November 2024, he was doing far more than opening a Chinese offshore project…

Shirley Ze Yu 10 December , 2025
Gaza patients stranded amid crippling medical crisis
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Gaza patients stranded amid crippling medical crisis

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has released stark figures underscoring the deepening medical catastrophe in the Gaza Strip, as the United…

Al Majalla - London 09 December , 2025
Luna al-Shibl was in Bashar al-Assad's inner circle for more than a decade but fell from favour shortly before her death. Axel Rangel García
Documents & Memoirs

‘She’s a spy’: Soleimani’s warning about Syrian advisor Luna al-Shibl

The story of Luna al‑Shibl, a former journalist who became special advisor to former Syrian president Bashar al‑Assad, has generated conspiracy and…

Manaf Saad 09 December , 2025
A t-shirt worn by a supporter of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro during a rally against US military activity in the Caribbean, in Caracas on 30 October 2025. Federico Parra / AFP
Politics

A century of interventions: the US is misreading Latin America

For more than a century, the United States has attempted to shape political outcomes across Latin America, whether that be backing coups, toppling…

Stefanie Butendieck Hijerra 09 December , 2025
The problems in Egypt's pharmaceutical sector may require surgery to fix Alia Abu Khadour
Business & Economy

Egypt’s drug price increases help companies but not patients

In a period of high inflation and economic upheaval, Egypt’s pharmaceuticals sector and strained health‑insurance system are having to ride out a…

Marcelle Nasr 09 December , 2025
A Palestinian family looks down from their heavily damaged home in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on 7 November 2025. OMAR AL-QATTAA / AFP
Politics

In Gaza, bombed-out homes become death traps

When Israeli bombardment and ground incursions intensified in late June, the Badr family was forced to flee their three-storey home in Jabalia,…

Salem Al Rayyes 08 December , 2025
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The tiny waterway that put the global economy into a chokehold

18 April 2026

Disruption in the Hormuz can have major implications for global trade, but it also creates opportunities for smaller nations like Iran to become global political players

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Glimpses of Bush's Iraq debacle appear in Trump's Iran war

15 April 2026

The Iraq war was viewed as disastrous in retrospect, while the Iran war was unpopular from the get-go. Al Majalla highlights the similarities and differences between the two.

Robert Ford
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Business & Economy

The US plan to turn Syria into an oil transit hub

16 April 2026

Pipelines have a chequered history in the Middle East, but the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has led US Tom Barrack to conclude that a new route through Syria could solve some problems.

Al Majalla - London
An Iranian woman flashes the V-sign as she takes part in a rally to pay tribute to women killed during war, in Tehran on 17 April 2026. AFP
Politics

Has Iran's ideology actually hardened?

16 April 2026

The change in tone and presentation of policy isn't a fundamental redirection, but rather the consolidation of a system under pressure

Alex Vatanka
Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed holds two awards during the opening ceremony of the Alexandria Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria, late on 14 September 2010. AMR AHMAD / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Daoud Abdel Sayed and the cinema of quiet rebellion

16 April 2026

Throughout his career, the renowned Egyptian film director challenged authority, rejected easy answers, and remained rooted in lived experience

Hazem Massoud

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